Sleep disorders in children and adolescents
Sleep disorders in children and adolescents Gregory Stores Introduction It was argued in Chapter 4.14.1 that sleep disorders medicine should be viewed as an integral part of psychiatry, whatever the…
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and tics in children and adolescents
Obsessive-compulsive disorder and tics in children and adolescents Martine F. Flament Philippe Robaey Introduction Although obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) has long been considered as a disorder of adulthood, the early child…
Paediatric mood disorders
Paediatric mood disorders David Brent Boris Birmaher In this chapter, we describe the nosology and epidemiology of paediatric unipolar and bipolar disorders, risk factors and predictors of course, and the…
Anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence
Anxiety disorders in childhood and adolescence Daniel S. Pine Introduction The term ‘fear’ refers to the brain state evoked by dangerous stimuli that are avoided because they are capable of…
Conduct disorders in childhood and adolescence
Conduct disorders in childhood and adolescence Stephen Scott Introduction The term conduct disorder refers to a persistent pattern of antisocial behaviour in which the individual repeatedly breaks social rules and…
Attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in childhood and adolescence
Attention deficit and hyperkinetic disorders in childhood and adolescence Eric Taylor Introduction The concept of ADHD arose from neurological formulations, but does not entail them, and the modern definition simply…
Autism and the pervasive developmental disorders
Autism and the pervasive developmental disorders Fred R. Volkmar Ami Klin Introduction The pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs) are characterized by patterns of deviance and delay in social-communicative development in the…
Specific developmental disorders in childhood and adolescence
Specific developmental disorders in childhood and adolescence Helmut Remschmidt Gerd Schulte-Körne Introduction The term ‘specific developmental disorders’ includes a variety of severe and persistent difficulties in spoken language, spelling, reading,…
Neuropsychiatric disorders
Neuropsychiatric disorders James C. Harris The developmental perspective Developmental neuropsychiatry addresses the neurobiological basis of behaviour in infants, children, and adolescents with neuro-developmental disorders and in those with brain damage…
Prevention of mental disorder in childhood and other public health issues
Prevention of mental disorder in childhood and other public health issues Rhoshel Lenroot Introduction Over the last two decades advances in psychiatric classification systems and screening tools have allowed the…
